Chapter 44
When she returned to the rental house, it was already 2:30 in the morning. Du Mingxing rubbed her legs, took off her high heels, changed into her most fitting cotton slippers, and felt lighter all over.
She removed her makeup and took a shower in one go, but she felt a little hungry as usual. When she saw the snacks on the coffee table, she wanted to eat them. After pausing for 5 minutes, she couldn't help herself and stuffed a milk tablet into her mouth.
The sweet aroma of milk spreads in my mouth, and my mood becomes cheerful.
As a resident singer, in order to maintain her figure, she has strictly controlled her diet since she successfully interviewed, learned how to put on makeup, and tried her best to make herself look more stylish.
...No, I should have been preparing for this kind of life since college.
However, she didn't seem as pretty as Shen Huaixin. After all, the original owner was a genuine white, rich and beautiful woman, and she was young...
Du Mingxing paused for a moment.
Then she remembered that according to the speed of time in the novel world - she remembered that the ratio with the present world was one to ten - ten years had passed. Even if the original owner was still alive, he would be 27 years old, a few years older than she is now.
Soon, she shook her head and pulled herself out. It had been a year since the time travel. To her, it was just a dream, so why bother thinking about it anymore.
Du Mingxing lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and recalled the rhythm of the music just now, still feeling a little excited.
Looking back to a year ago, she didn't even have an interview opportunity, and the few interviews she had were repeatedly rejected due to her lack of experience. In order to make a living, she worked part-time while looking for various opportunities, and finally met her current boss.
She blocked her boss at the car door, handed her a homemade CD with almost no hope, and asked her to listen to it for a few minutes when she had time.
The boss didn't reach out to take it, but warned her that he would call the police if she continued to pester him.
Du Mingxing pursed his lips, bowed to the boss, held out his hands, and repeated, "Please give it a try! I promise I won't waste your time!"
The boss looked at her determined expression, his eyes moved, as if he was a little nostalgic.
A few days later, she received a call from a woman: "Hello, is this Du Mingxing?"
Du Mingxing was combing the cat's hair at the time. He couldn't help but stop and hold his breath: "Yes, I am."
"I'm the owner of the Style Bar. Haha, the one you stopped the car from moving and forced the album into your mouth."
You can tell there's a bit of resentment in his voice.
Du Mingxing apologized repeatedly: "I'm so sorry, I just wanted to make one last attempt, after all..."
"I didn't call to listen to your apology," the boss paused, "What's the name of your first song?"
"'Late,'" Du Mingxing explained, knowing she wasn't just asking for the song's title but also wanted more information. "Actually, I... can't explain it. It's a mood, a state of mind. I improvised it at the time, wanting to write about love and dreams, parting and blessings. But then my mindset changed, and I revised it until it became what it is now. The more I revised it, the more confusing it became, and the title is now completely different from the original."
"But you still put it first. I can tell... who it seems to be written for?"
"Yeah." Du Mingxing admitted.
"When are you free?"
Du Mingxing was stunned for a moment and said "Huh?" in confusion.
"To work, or have you already found a good position somewhere else?"
Du Mingxing reacted quickly: "Tomorrow! No, tonight will do!"
"Meow~" Because the dog didn't move when combing half of its hair, Lion Hair put his claws on Du Mingxing's hand and urged him to do it.
"Wow, you imitated the cat's meow very well. We have a repertoire for tonight." The boss teased.
After hanging up the phone, Du Mingxing rubbed his face against the cat's belly, getting his mouth covered in fur.
Before I knew it, I had been doing this for half a year.
Lion Hair jumped onto the bed, squatted at the foot of the bed, stepped on her breast for a while, and looked at her with sleepy eyes.
"Good night, baby." Du Mingxing rolled up the quilt and lay down in a different position.
In the early morning, a little light came through the gap in the curtains, so the room was not completely dark, but the curtain gradually fell in front of Du Mingxing's eyes.
At the end of the darkness is a galaxy, like a fantasy.
A boy in school uniform stood in the distance, expressionless, letting the blood on his chest spread and flow to the ground: "Sister, what do you mean by being late?"
His eyes were the same as when they first met. Now she knew that his pupils were like black holes, without any human emotions, good or evil, but only the chaos of the beginning of the world, enough to swallow everything.
She should have given him warmth and blessings, molded his future, made him a good person. But she didn't, and all her realizations came too late.
"You think that expressing a trivial apology can make up for your deliberate bullying and betrayal for the sake of the mission?"
She looked at the blade that had pierced deeply into the man's chest and spoke incoherently: "I didn't...that's not what I meant, I..."
【System: Warning! 】
[System: The small world's deviation value is too high and cannot be detected! Host, please travel again!]
Du Mingxing sat up abruptly in bed, the electronic system humming still ringing in her eardrums. She glanced at the cat she had kicked awake at the foot of the bed, shook her head and smiled wryly, a hint of bitterness tugging at the corners of her mouth.
What you think about during the day you dream about at night. Recalling the opportunity when she first entered the industry, she dreamed that she was questioned by Shen Chumo again, and finally the system appeared and asked her to travel through time again... It was a messy dream.
Du Mingxing sighed and just lay back on the bed, but he heard a familiar electronic voice. The voice was emotionless, yet extremely clear and close to his ear.
[System: Host, please travel through time again! ]
Shen Huaixin: “…?”
[System: The mission objective is to assist the heroine in purifying the villain, correcting the plot deviation, and achieving a perfect ending. The reward is 10 million yuan.]
Shen Huaixin confirmed that she was not hallucinating. When she was silent, the electronic voice urged her again.
[System: Just like last time, the system will teleport after the host reaches the ending. At the same time, a bonus of 10 million will be credited to the host's bank card, and the account balance will soar to 20,010,827.5 yuan.]
[System: ...Wait a moment, the system has failed and is rechecking the host's bank account.]
"If there is no problem, the current price is 10,010,827.5 yuan," said Du Mingxing.
[System: 371 days have passed since the bonus was distributed. Why didn't the host take any of it?]
Du Mingxing shrugged: "I can't stockpile rats."
When Du Mingxing traveled through time for the first time, she accepted the mission without any hesitation when she heard there was a bonus, which shows that money is very important to her, but she didn't spend any money after it was over.
It's not that she doesn't need money, it's just...she doesn't want to use it. That's all.
[System: Host's preferences have changed... Unable to understand the logic, re-evaluating...]
"...No need to evaluate," Du Mingxing lowered his eyes, hiding the turmoil in them. "I will go, and do my best to assist the heroine in her purification, but there is a condition."
【System: What conditions? 】
Du Mingxing: "You have to pay extra."
【system:……】
Du Mingxing clenched his trembling fists under the quilt, smiling calmly, "It was just a joke."
After listening to the precautions for time travel again, Du Mingxing suddenly remembered something: "I remember that the original owner's physical body was gone, wasn't it?"
[System: Yes, so for quite some time, we planned to abandon the small world and let it fend for itself. However, we recently unexpectedly discovered that there is an object that can be deployed - that is, an object that can carry the host's consciousness. Although we have searched the small world, we still cannot find the whereabouts of that flesh body.]
Du Mingxing didn't care about this: "It's okay, you'll know when it's over."
It didn't matter where she was, and it didn't matter whether the body was human or a ghost. The only thing was that the boy in her dream...she had to meet him.
Early in the morning, Du Mingxing once again sent the lion cat to the pet shop and paid a full six months' deposit in advance. The owner was delighted.
"Don't worry, little girl. We kept your cat shiny and plump for nine days last time, didn't we? We'll definitely take care of your cat like our own son this time too!"
Du Mingxing nodded: "Please."
Everything was ready. She quickly returned to the rental house, took a deep breath, and called out the system: "Let's go."
Travel again.
Du Mingxing thought of many places and many ways to meet Shen Chumo again, but he never thought that she would appear directly in front of him.
Completely... unprepared. Before she could even feel homesickness, she appeared before that person.
Things have changed. Under the scorching sun, the surrounding high-rise buildings have been reduced to ruins and inferno, like a vast post-apocalyptic wasteland. The contrast between the deadly silent city and the lonely people standing there was so overwhelming that the sense of desolation was overwhelming and suffocating.
In the hellish scene, the young boy had lost his youthfulness. When he glanced at her, the coldness in his eyes seemed to turn into substance, and the black mist at his fingertips solidified into the shape of a blade.
Of course she recognized it; it was the one she had used to stab him.
At this moment, Du Mingxing suddenly understood the weight of ten years. It could change a person beyond recognition.
It's not about appearance, his appearance is superior enough, but...
Before Du Mingxing could think about it, he suddenly felt a chill in his chest. He looked down and almost fainted from fright.
——There was a bloody hole in her heart!
He raised his head again and looked at Shen Chumo in disbelief. The knife in his hand was dripping with blood. The bright red, extremely fresh blood shone coldly along the tip of the knife and fell to the ground.
After Du Mingxing caught this picture, his mind gradually turned around. He killed himself when she appeared in front of him.
Her nose began to feel sore. She had indeed thought about this consequence, and it was logically reasonable, but she still held on to a sense of luck.
He hated her so much that he didn't even give her time to apologize.
Du Mingxing closed his eyes and resigned himself to waiting for the system to declare failure and his own death.
But, nothing happened.
...Does it take this long for a human to die? Du Mingxing hadn't tried it, so he wasn't sure.
Just when she was confused, she heard a man's cold and low voice from the other side.
"Another...inner demon."
"The ghost is still there."
Du Mingxing suddenly realized that he had developed a mental disorder because of the backstabbing.
No wonder the system searched the entire small world but couldn't find her body. No wonder she was killed as soon as she appeared but didn't die. It turned out that—
She became Shen Chumo’s inner demon.
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